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Tom Allon (Tom F. Allon) was born on 21 May, 1962 in New York City, U.S., is an American publisher. Discover Tom Allon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As Tom F. Allon
Occupation Newspaper publisher, media entrepreneur, journalist, public affairs columnist
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May, 1962
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Tom F. Allon is an American newspaper/magazine and digital media and events entrepreneur.

He is publisher and former co-owner of City & State NY.

Previously he was president and co-owner of Manhattan Media.

1984

He graduated with a BA degree in history from Cornell in 1984.

1985

He then received an MS degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1985.

After graduating from Columbia, Allon taught English at his alma mater, Stuyvesant High School.

1986

From 1986 to 1991, Allon was editor of The West Side Spirit, a community newspaper he later owned.

1990

He is a serial media entrepreneur, who helped build one public media company and two private media companies in the three decades between 1990-2020.

He has bought and sold many publications and is considered an expert in launching and growing digital and events-driven local media outlets.

Allon started his career as an educator, teaching English and Journalism at his alma mater, Stuyvesant High School.

He has also taught opinion writing in the journalism department at Hunter College in New York City.

Allon was raised in a Jewish family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Allon attended Stuyvesant High School.

He attended Cornell University, where he worked for The Cornell Daily Sun and was its sports editor and a columnist.

1992

In 1992, he became publisher of West Side Spirit and its sister paper on the East Side, Our Town.

1993

In 1993, he was promoted to executive vice president of News Communications, Inc., a public company which owned 23 publications in the NY metropolitan area and Washington, D.C. In 1994, he helped in the creation of a new publication covering Congress and politics in DC, The Hill.

In 1993, Allon married Janet Wickenhaver, then a freelance crime reporter, in a Jewish ceremony in Soho.

2001

In 2001, Allon spearheaded a management buyout of four weekly newspapers in Manhattan and created Manhattan Media, where he was CEO for more than a decade.

Along with the West Side Spirit, Manhattan Media also published the community newspapers Our Town, The Westsider, the Chelsea Clinton News, the political newspapers City Hall and The Capitol, and the magazines Avenue and New York Family.

2011

On July 12, 2011, Allon announced that he would run for mayor of the City of New York.

He stated that New Yorkers need a leader "like me who thinks like an Israeli: tough and always ready to defend his people."

2012

On January 10, 2012, the Liberal Party of New York selected Allon as its mayoral candidate.

While Allon "made a strong impression at a series of candidate forums," his candidacy failed to gain traction, and "his polling numbers mired in the low single digits."

Allon raised more than $300,000 for his campaign but against more experienced candidates he had difficulty attracting major campaign donors, reporting just $17,335 in contributions in the two months before he dropped out of the race.

Allon withdrew from the race on March 17, his campaign more than $4,000 in debt.

The Liberal Party subsequently endorsed Catsimatidis.

At the same time, Allon acquired the news organization City & State from Manhattan Media.

Allon later became a frequent pundit and columnist in local media on important public policy matters.

2013

He was for eighteen months a candidate for mayor in the 2013 election, but subsequently dropped out of the race.

He was endorsed by the Liberal Party in NY.

Allon is also a columnist and pundit whose opinion pieces have appeared in the NY Daily News, NY Post, City & State and the Huffington Post.

In 2013, Allon once again led a management buyout of City & State, NY from Manhattan Media and along with partner Steve Farbman, built that into the must-read in local and state government.

City & State publishes a weekly magazine, five daily emails and produces 50 events a year, including "power lists" which rank the powerful in New York State by geography, demography, and industry.

2019

Candidates for public office often sought his counsel and advice and in 2019-2020 he helped organize weekly "mayor classes" for Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidates Eric Adams, who later went on to win the election and become Mayor of New York City in 2022.

2020

In 2020, Allon sold City & State to Government Executive, a media, data and insights company based in Washington, D.C. He stayed on as publisher of City & State, NY and is leading City & State’s expansion to other states, including Pennsylvania in April 2021 and Florida in May 2022.

Allon is also a frequent pundit and columnist, whose work has appeared in the NY Daily News, The NY Post, the Huffington Post as well as City & State.

In early 2022, Allon co-founded a new non-profit Think Tank, The 5Boro Institute.

After raising more than $700,000 from prominent New York City philanthropists, real estate firms and tech companies, Allon hired former NY1 journalist Grace Rauh to be executive director of 5Boro.

Allon’s co-founder, long-time esteemed civic leader Dick Ravitch, passed away in June 2023.

5Boro’s first Special Report on the staffing crisis in City government was widely praised in government and the local media and a number of its recommendations were adopted by the Adams mayoral administration.